Apparently, this is being seriously considered. By whom you may ask?
Michlele Bachmann! Who else!?!?!?

Bachmann is quoted in the Star Tribune as saying that it is an “interesting coincidence” that the last swine flu outbreak also occurred under a Democratic president.

That, of course, would be Democratic President Gerald Ford. Who was a Republican.

To be fair, Bachmann is saying that she really isn’t blaming Obama for the swine flu. She just finds it “very interesting.” Just sayin’

I certainly hope that she does not find out that Woodrow Wilson was president at the time of the 1918 flu epidemic. Of course, that was back in the days when Republicans were Democrats and Democrats were Republicans.

Thanks to Monica for pointing this remarkable story out to me. I was eating a taco at the time, unfortunately.

To be fair, Bachmann is saying that she really isn’t blaming Obama for the swine flu. She just finds it “very interesting.”

Yup, and that actually makes perfect sense in a fundie mind. In fundie-speak, she’s not trying to imply that Obama actively caused the present outbreak – she’s trying to imply that swine flu is God’s regular punishment for electing a Democratic president.

As for being off by a year – come on, she’s four centuries behind the times, how could she keep track of a single year or two…

No, no, no – c’mon I know it’s all dark and fetid in there but get inside the, for lack of a better term, “mind” of someone like Bachmann – what’s really happening here is the rabid right wing, knowing that it was their own agents inside the federal government who created and released this virus just in time to kill a prominent Mexican scientist the day after he greets Obama, are laying the groundwork to cast suspicion on the Democrats in office.